Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Environmental & Chemical Engineering has received an order from Kawasaki City to build its Tachibana Waste-to-Energy Plant, a municipal solid waste (MSW) incineration plant in Kawasaki's Takatsu District.

Claimed to be Mozambique’s first onshore LNG development, the project is expected to supply initial volumes of approximately 100 million cubic feet of natural gas per day.

Luis Sierra has recently been appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nova Chemicals Corporation. He will take charge from August 1, 2020 and will succeed Todd Karran who is retiring from the company.

British engineering company Amec Foster Wheeler announces the award of a contract by Yuhuang Chemical (YCI), a US-based subsidiary of Shandong Yuhuang Chemical Company (SYCC), for its first major project in the US, a 1.7 million tons per year world-scale methanol facility on the Mississippi River in St. James Parish, Louisiana.

Praxair has signed an agreement to acquire Yara International ASA’s (Yara) European CO2 business. The proposed transaction also includes Praxair’s acquisition of Yara’s remaining 34 % stake in the Yara Praxair Holding AS industrial gas joint venture in Scandinavia. The investment for both transactions is expected to be 312 million euros.

For the production of cosmetics and pharmaceutical products as well as for the processing of foodstuff, a special thoroughness and cleanliness must be ensured to consumers. For this reason, particularly high demands are placed for equipment which is used in these branches.

Exxon Mobil and Synthetic Genomics announced a new phase in their joint algae biofuel research program that could lead to the technical ability to produce 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel per day by 2025.

Airgas USA, an Air Liquide company, announced plans to build a new liquid carbon dioxide (CO2) production facility in Stockton, California, and to expand an air separation unit (ASU) in Etiwanda, California.

Explore Bio, the pre-seed-investment vehicle aims at investments as well as management services for proof-of-concept-experiments in biotechnology. The early-stage companies benefiting from the initiative will also be given the opportunity to work at Merck’s Bio Incubator facilities in Israel.

Assiut National Oil Processing Company has awarded the project to construct a new hydrocracking complex for the Assiut refinery in Egypt. The new project is expected to transform lower-value petroleum products into 2.8 million tonnes per year of cleaner products.